stanhopea tigrina... so happy i could pee!

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stanhopea tigrina... so happy i could pee!

my mission this weekend was bulb.echinolabium and an arachnis... well it rained. and rained some more... it was ridiculous... but i grabbed the biggest umbrella i could find and stomped, tromped my way to the flower market... to no avail...
one little piggy was too stinky to come to market... the other too elusive
but with some persuasion i managed to get a "ok! ok! i'll bring it tomorrow!"
but with that being squared away, no arachnis in sight, and me still in the market....
something else got me.... and it popped open this morning!the angle of this one made me laugh
the smell is intoxicating!
oh and there is a rather funny story as to how i ended up with two plants not just the one i bought...

Enjoy them while you can, Shane. The flowers are fleeting. (And unfortunately that is the case for all members of the Gongora tribe, as far as I know.) Nice pics!

Originally Posted by catttan

Very pretty! Trust the little piggy to sniff out these beauty! Great sniffers, piggies, - where would truffles be without them!

The pigs don't get much of that business any more. I hear that dogs are doing a lot of it now. (And since the dogs have no interest in eating truffles, the truffle harvester doesn't have to share any of them with the animal.)

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